Fitgerald is not a Republican and President Bush did not “pick him”. He was “picked” and given extension of “broad discretion” of power by his pal James Comey (D) who after only 3 weeks as Deputy AG asked John Ashcroft to recuse himself from Plamegate. Fitzgerald is a godfather to Comey’s son. Comey also refused to certify key parts of NSA’s anti-terrorism “phone-listening” program, and was a possible “leaker” of the program - he resigned from DoJ shortly after the election of 2004 to become Lockheed-Martin General Counsel.
Starr was grilled incessantly on the Hill to account for the time he spent during all Clintons’ crimes he was investigating. No such oversight from then-GOP Congress was done about Fitzgerald entrapment expedition.
I did not know about the personal relationship of the Fitzgerald-Comey connection. Thanks!